Red terror with peacock bass in grow out tank?

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anzo1993

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Hello, I currently upgraded my 4 juvenile red terrors to a 180 gallon tank, the largest red terror is about 3 inches, there in with a tinfoil barb and a couple clown loaches for now, I have a friend who’s getting out of the hobby and he offered me his 2 peacock bass occelaris about 3 inches or so, wondering if they would all work together in the 180 as a grow out until there older and put in some size
 
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There can be aggression from the red terrors if they perceive the pbass as competitors. The terrors really pack a punch. It certainly happened in my tank.
Thanks for the advice, maybe I can try growing out the bass abit in another tank before adding them
 
I think you will probably be ok to add them. You might want to pull out the most aggressive festaes until the peacocks get settled in the tank, then re-add them. Red terrors can be super aggressive, as Rocksor mentioned, but PB have different enough body shape that there is a good chance the festaes will ignore them in that size tank.
 
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